Suggestion: Investigate the players at the top of the leader board

[Vasala]

I would suggest that SE take a hard look at the players at the top of the gathering leaderboards this season especially the fishers. Some of the numbers look very suspicious of the players cheating.

[KageTokage]

Honestly, it wouldn't do any good when they can't even seem to identify the most obvious of bots in the first place.

I've reported Diadem bots that were stuck in a loop of jumping in place and/or mounting/dismounting constantly for basically an entire three hour lock out and they didn't do squat about it.

[Enla]

Honestly, it wouldn't do any good when they can't even seem to identify the most obvious of bots in the first place.

I've reported Diadem bots that were stuck in a loop of jumping in place and/or mounting/dismounting constantly for basically an entire three hour lock out and they didn't do squat about it.

This. After a certain point it just becomes obvious that they don't care about how bad botting is on NA servers. I'm not sure if the problem is nonexistent on the JP servers, or if the community there is better about freezing out offenders on their own, but at this point I'd expect the ocean to turn to mango flavored jelly before SE actually took a proper stand on the matter. Which is upsetting because frankly if they just went after the bot makers themselves this issue would be a lot less prevalent. They aren't exactly hard to find, not when half of them openly brag about how easy it is to bot in this game and get away with it.

[Kes13a]

This. After a certain point it just becomes obvious that they don't care about how bad botting is on NA servers. I'm not sure if the problem is nonexistent on the JP servers, or if the community there is better about freezing out offenders on their own, but at this point I'd expect the ocean to turn to mango flavored jelly before SE actually took a proper stand on the matter. Which is upsetting because frankly if they just went after the bot makers themselves this issue would be a lot less prevalent. They aren't exactly hard to find, not when half of them openly brag about how easy it is to bot in this game and get away with it.

I think if teh issue is less invasive on the JPN servers its because thats where the devs play, so it gets addressed.

the NA team, is failing us

[Kukajoo]

Ehhh, I've put in 65000 points on fsh today, sure doing it all day but also take breaks and indulging in other content. I don't think its impossible for someone to truly no life those 120000 points. At least, speaking for the adamantoise leaderboard only.

[KageTokage]

I know some of the people who did top 12 BTN/MIN last season to know they don't cheat and that they legitimately got well over 500K points, so yeah, some people are just insanely devoted.

It's still a joke to have a ranking system if they can't keep the cheaters under control, though.

EDIT: Rankings just updated and there are already DoH players with over 300K points on my server, which I find suspicious as all heck (Though I already know some of them are habitual botters from before the rankings began). I've also noticed most of these people never log off and are just sitting in their houses all night without being flagged AFK.

I think if teh issue is less invasive on the JPN servers its because thats where the devs play, so it gets addressed.

the NA team, is failing us

From I've gathered, we don't even have a NA branch of the STF to hunt down bots.

The entire game's population of cheaters is basically left up to a tiny JP team that was only staffed by four people according to the last credits roll.

[Ryaz]

We had an alchemist on Bryn during first phase who had several million points more than second place and was a couple million ahead of other first placers. He was the only one I suspected of botting.

[Amgkay]

We had an alchemist on Bryn during first phase who had several million points more than second place and was a couple million ahead of other first placers. He was the only one I suspected of botting.

Just looked at Bryn's past scores, and no one under ALC hit 1 mil. Who are you talking about?

[Enla]

Just looked at Bryn's past scores, and no one under ALC hit 1 mil. Who are you talking about?

Could have very well been banned if that's the case. Surprising honestly.

[KageTokage]

Looking at how some of these likely botters have gained 200-300K points in the span of a single day, I'm getting really concerned about people's spots in the rankings getting sniped by cheaters who choose to start late. Literally any PC player who has the gear and resources to craft experts can just turn on a bot to secure themselves a top 12 spot if they feel like it.

I'd like to hope they'd have the sense to look into abnormally large spikes in points, but I doubt it.